Alnajjar, Munther S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8472-0173
Aldeyab, Mamoon A.
Scott, Michael G.
Kearney, Mary P.
Fleming, Glenda
Glimore, Fiona
Farren, David
McElnay, James C.
Article History
Received: 8 December 2018
Accepted: 2 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest with respect to authorship and/or publication of this article.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For the purposes of conducting this study, governance approvals were obtained from: the Office for Research Ethics Committees Northern Ireland [ORECNI; reference: 14/NI/0065], the Governance Research Office in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust [reference: NRP14-0417-04], and the Honest Broker Governance Board [reference: 002/14]. For this type of study (retrospective in design), formal individual patient consent was not required.